拉大旗作虎皮

laai1 daai6 kei4 zok3 fu2 pei4

lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom) · fig. to borrow sb's prestige · to take the name of a great cause as a shield

Meanings

  1. lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom)
  2. fig. to borrow sb's prestige
  3. to take the name of a great cause as a shield

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0